Constellations
Earth's Movement
Stars and Planets
Telescopes
Comets and Meteors
100
A constellation is a group of stars that forms a pattern in the night sky.
What is a constellation?
100
The spinning of the Earth on its axis is called rotation.
What is the spinning of the Earth on its axis called?
100
A star is huge globe of hot gases that shines by its own light.
What is a star?
100
A reflecting telescope is an instrument that uses mirror to gather light from distant objects.
What is a reflecting telescope?
100
A piece of rock that enters Earth's atmosphere and then burns up is called a meteor.
What is a meteor?
200
The name of the North Star is Polaris.
What is the name of the North Star?
200
One complete circular orbit by Earth around the Sun is called a revolution.
What is one complete circular orbit by Earth around the Sun called?
200
A planet is a large object that circles a stor and does not produce light.
What is a planet?
200
A refracting telescope uses lenses to magnify and focus light.
What is a refracting telescope?
200
A comet is an object that has an elliptical orbit around the Sun and whose core is mostly frozen water, ammonia and methane.
What is a comet?
300
The Big Dipper is part of the constellation called Ursa Major.
What constellation is the Big Dipper part of?
300
The imaginary rod that stretches through Earth between the North and South Poles is called the axis.
What is the axis?
300
A star produces its own light and planet does not.
What is the difference between a star and planet?
300
Sir Isaac Newton designed the reflecting telescope.
What is the telescope Sir Isaac Newton designed?
300
A meteorite is material from asteroids that fall to Earth.
What is a meteorite?
400
Orion is a constellation whose position seems to shift with the seasons.
What is a constellation that seems to move across the night sky?
400
Earth's rotation takes 24 hours.
What is the length of Earth's rotation?
400
The Greeks called five special objects "wandering stars." In English we call them planets.
What is the English name for Wandering Stars?
400
Galileo Galilei used a refracting telescope.
What telescope did Galilei use?
400
A scientist can learn about comets and the origins of the solar system by studying meteroites?
What can scientists learn from studying meteorites?
500
The Greek's made the mistake of calling Venus a "morning star."
What planet was first mistaken as a star?
500
Earth has seasons because different hemispheres tilt toward or away from the Sun at different times of the year
What is the cause of the different seasons?
500
The morning and evening star is Venus?
What is the morning and evening star?
500
The Hubble Space Telescope is positioned in orbit around Earth.
Where is the Hubble Space Telescope positioned?
500
Halley's comet revolves around the Sun once every 76 years.
What famous comet revolves around the Sun once every 76 years?
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